
11Introduction to Performance Tuning
apply to the end user, and lull us into a false sense of security that the performance
is suitable. The goals have to be relevant to the end user, and use realistic work-
ow, hardware specications and load scenarios.
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• Partial metrics — Performance goals that cover only part of the application can
also be worse than not having any goal at all. Such “coin under the lamp” goals
tend to focus our attention on the measured code sections, not necessarily the real
hotspots. This could mislead us to tune only part of the application, and to believe
that (following the tuning) it is fully optimized.
• Moving targ ...